Requirements

This is application based on Yii 2.0 Basic Application Template
Please read it if any issues Require PHP7+

Setup

• Clone repository
• Copy config/web.php.dist and config/db.php.dist to config/web.php and config/db.php respectively
• Update config/db.php with your database credentials
• Run composer install in project root
• Run ./yii migrate for migrations
• Setup your server for use pretty url as described in guide (see also notes below)
• Default user credentials are hardcoded in models/User.php
• API endpoints: /api for get news, /api/interests for get interests; for get news with interests by ids: /api?interests[]=1&interests[]=2 etc.

Setup every minute cron task for parse news:
php /path/to/yii/root/folder/yii parser Or you can run this command manually from project root folder: ./yii parser

Server configuration

Folder /web should be setup as document root. Example of nginx config:

server {
    charset utf-8;
    client_max_body_size 128M;

    listen 80; ## listen for ipv4
    #listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

    server_name mysite.test;
    root        /path/to/web;
    index       index.php;

    access_log  /path/to/log/access.log;
    error_log   /path/to/log/error.log;

    location / {
        # Redirect everything that isn't a real file to index.php
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    # uncomment to avoid processing of calls to non-existing static files by Yii
    #location ~ \.(js|css|png|jpg|gif|swf|ico|pdf|mov|fla|zip|rar)$ {
    #    try_files $uri =404;
    #}
    #error_page 404 /404.html;

    # deny accessing php files for the /assets directory
    location ~ ^/assets/.*\.php$ {
        deny all;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        try_files $uri =404;
    }

    location ~* /\. {
        deny all;
    }
}

For Apache you can use .htaccess file in /web folder:

RewriteEngine on
# if $showScriptName is false in UrlManager, do not allow accessing URLs with script name
RewriteRule ^index.php/ - [L,R=404]
    
# If a directory or a file exists, use the request directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    
# Otherwise forward the request to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php